This is the mother of all 'get off my lawn' arguments. Using existing technology is what brings us most innovations. In fact, using existing technology is what every programmer does.
... and instead of learning the lesson that SMTP taught US 25 years ago Google is content to have something else that will live in beta for years.
SMTP is in beta?
I've only seen the demovideo and done a bit of reading. The ideas behind wave are innovative, ambitious and pretty well thought through. If wave becomes a success, it will take years before it's massively deployed. It might also take years to fail spectacularly, either through bad development decisions, or just through failing to come up with the killer-app.
But to bash it now is stupid. Google is doing this the right way. They're following a vision that might be wrong, or might not be what you're looking for. But it will be open-sourced, so you can create your own wave services. And it doesn't have to be inside a browser, as far as I understand it.
The article really is about how the term cloud computing as it is used now, is different from how the researchers used it in the nineties.
As you've seen, today's cloud computing is not at all the same thing as our vision of the P2P cloud
I don't use the term at all. Putting thinks like network storage, Amazon's EC2, Google Docs and del.icio.us together is non-sensical. Yes, 'cloud computing' is a buzzword. I knew that.
Maya's vision for a true P2P information network is nice though, albeit somewhat too idealistic.
The Pirate Bay moved their servers to the Netherlands after the raid in 2006. They weren't welcome.
By 9 June, the website was once again fully functional. On 14 June 2006, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that The Pirate Bay was back in Sweden due to "pressure from the Department of Justice [in the Netherlands]."
I usually refresh the entire page (CTRL+R), but I tried your way (click the Slashdot logo) just now. It clears the middle column, says it's loading and then displays the stories. I've got "Paused" turned on and I'm using FF3.0.8 on Linux.
Works pretty good, actually. According to the faq, I can press G for more stories, but I'm not sure that's the same thing.
"that 30 percent were published in the U.S., 30 percent in industrialized countries."
Either the U.S. isn't an industrialized country, or it's the only one on the planet.
It's a variable, you dummy. Just substitute it with whatever fits, e.g.: "Guitar Hero III the First Game to want Billion In Sales" Better? from the this-verb-no-sense dept.
If you want Microsoft's site to have a low pagerank, wouldn't it be better to collectively ignore their slogans. By the way, slogans like these should be ignored, regardless of the company that uses them.
My point was that many businesses seem to focus on getting to the top of a search results page. This, in itself, is a very good idea. But many forget the import fact that it's only useful if the term you want to be identified with, has a connection with your potential client. Nobody thinks "I want to buy a product that has something to do with People-Ready Business. Let's Google!"
There's these Christian fundamentalists, the ones who are trying to get creationism taught in school as a science. I think it would be great because it would definitely be the shortest class of the day. "Welcome to creationist science. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day he rested. See ya at the final!"
Sorry. I tried to be funny. I understand your point, but to back it up with the fact that you don't get spammed is hilarious to me. Your post can be read that way, I know you meant to get the other message across (no one is being harmed by spam).
Why do you _expect_ a company to do business according to your own rules?
I can only speak for myself, of course, and I don't expect them to do anything. I just don't understand them. You're saying that it will cost NVidia (and others) money to open source their drivers. It will save them money. Their drivers would be developed, tested and used by more people. Development would speed up and it would cost less.
The fact that there are a lot of people out there who want nothing but OSS on their machines is only one issue. I would _prefer_ an OSS driver, but I _want_ a working driver that's at least up to par with the Windows version. I've got an ATI card so I'm fscked. Open sourcing drivers would give the Linux community state-of-the-art drivers within a few months without extra costs for the manufacturer. The reason they don't do it, of course, is that they're afraid the design secrets of the hardware will be revealed. I can't really judge if that would be the case (I'm no hardware expert), but I'm guessing that risk would prove minimal. If company A _really_ wants to know how company B's hardware works, they'll figure it out even without the source code of the drivers. NVidia's case is even more confusing as they do release their 2d drivers. As I said, I just don't get it. Or they just don't get it. If NVidia takes the first step, they'll be embraced by most of the Linux community and that is a fast growing market.
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Series author Richard Jones takes the videogame industry to task for the numerous poor images that young black people have to compare themselves to.
Have to compare themselves to? Black kids can only identify with black characters in videogames? That's what I call racist! By the way, I'm white and I enjoyed San Andreas very much. Although I'm quite certain it was not the main objective of the creators of the game, I now perhaps can identify a bit more with people that grew up in different circumstances than myself. But I'm not supposed to, I understand. I'll start playing the ignorant white male again, right after I've hit the submit button, mkay?
Instead of spending billions on technologies that attack paying customers, the studios should be confronting that reality and figuring out how to make a living in a world where copying will get easier and easier. They're like blacksmiths meeting to figure out how to protect the horseshoe racket by sabotaging railroads. The railroad is coming. The tracks have been laid right through the studio gates. It's time to get out of the horseshoe business.
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Google has cobbled together existing technology
This is the mother of all 'get off my lawn' arguments. Using existing technology is what brings us most innovations. In fact, using existing technology is what every programmer does.
... and instead of learning the lesson that SMTP taught US 25 years ago Google is content to have something else that will live in beta for years.
SMTP is in beta?
I've only seen the demovideo and done a bit of reading. The ideas behind wave are innovative, ambitious and pretty well thought through. If wave becomes a success, it will take years before it's massively deployed. It might also take years to fail spectacularly, either through bad development decisions, or just through failing to come up with the killer-app.
But to bash it now is stupid. Google is doing this the right way. They're following a vision that might be wrong, or might not be what you're looking for. But it will be open-sourced, so you can create your own wave services. And it doesn't have to be inside a browser, as far as I understand it.
Blasphemer! Hand in your geek card, study this video and you may be allowed to re-apply. If you survive 'the rack', of course.
That should be the title. That is, if it were newsworthy. Which it isn't.
I don't use the term at all. Putting thinks like network storage, Amazon's EC2, Google Docs and del.icio.us together is non-sensical. Yes, 'cloud computing' is a buzzword. I knew that. Maya's vision for a true P2P information network is nice though, albeit somewhat too idealistic.
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I usually refresh the entire page (CTRL+R), but I tried your way (click the Slashdot logo) just now. It clears the middle column, says it's loading and then displays the stories. I've got "Paused" turned on and I'm using FF3.0.8 on Linux.
Works pretty good, actually. According to the faq, I can press G for more stories, but I'm not sure that's the same thing.
Click "Index Beta Settings" in your preferences and make sure "Paused" is ticked.
"that 30 percent were published in the U.S., 30 percent in industrialized countries."
Either the U.S. isn't an industrialized country, or it's the only one on the planet.
"The rest of the world is the rest."
Amazing!
It's a variable, you dummy. Just substitute it with whatever fits, e.g.:
"Guitar Hero III the First Game to want Billion In Sales"
Better?
from the this-verb-no-sense dept.
Here are the songs "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" and "Sing The Changes":
http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/assets/mp3/
A HUD? With the relevant traffic signs on it? What does that have to do with old people? I want those things!
My Nokia N82 does that. The phone in the video seems to flip the screen as the guy pulls out the keyboard.
In physics, at least it's possible from time to time to definitively disprove something.
If you want Microsoft's site to have a low pagerank, wouldn't it be better to collectively ignore their slogans. By the way, slogans like these should be ignored, regardless of the company that uses them. My point was that many businesses seem to focus on getting to the top of a search results page. This, in itself, is a very good idea. But many forget the import fact that it's only useful if the term you want to be identified with, has a connection with your potential client. Nobody thinks "I want to buy a product that has something to do with People-Ready Business. Let's Google!"
Who is going to search for Microsoft and "People-Ready Business"?
Except that "Strange women..." is my sig.
Sorry. I tried to be funny. I understand your point, but to back it up with the fact that you don't get spammed is hilarious to me. Your post can be read that way, I know you meant to get the other message across (no one is being harmed by spam).
He shouldn't go to prison because he did not spam you?
You're saying that it will cost NVidia (and others) money to open source their drivers. It will save them money. Their drivers would be developed, tested and used by more people. Development would speed up and it would cost less.
The fact that there are a lot of people out there who want nothing but OSS on their machines is only one issue. I would _prefer_ an OSS driver, but I _want_ a working driver that's at least up to par with the Windows version. I've got an ATI card so I'm fscked. Open sourcing drivers would give the Linux community state-of-the-art drivers within a few months without extra costs for the manufacturer.
The reason they don't do it, of course, is that they're afraid the design secrets of the hardware will be revealed. I can't really judge if that would be the case (I'm no hardware expert), but I'm guessing that risk would prove minimal. If company A _really_ wants to know how company B's hardware works, they'll figure it out even without the source code of the drivers.
NVidia's case is even more confusing as they do release their 2d drivers. As I said, I just don't get it. Or they just don't get it. If NVidia takes the first step, they'll be embraced by most of the Linux community and that is a fast growing market.
Second that a third time.
By the way, I'm white and I enjoyed San Andreas very much. Although I'm quite certain it was not the main objective of the creators of the game, I now perhaps can identify a bit more with people that grew up in different circumstances than myself. But I'm not supposed to, I understand. I'll start playing the ignorant white male again, right after I've hit the submit button, mkay?
Exactly.